On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:39:05 -0700 (PDT), Shawn Baker wrote: >You know, it would seem even easier to know how to re-enter the >capsized kayak and PADDLE to shore. It seems so obvious to us--why is >it that so many people don't take a lesson and learn rescues!?!?! _ _ _ O / _ _C_U_T_ _B_E_G_I_N_ _ O \ David Stockton said his brother recently acquired the kayak with a sail and had taken it out a couple of times. He told the Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew that he left in the kayak Friday morning near the Kona Airport with a goal of reaching North Kohala's 'Upolu Point, but he ran into trouble. Jonathan Stockton said that strong winds capsized his kayak Saturday afternoon, a quarter-mile offshore West Hawai'i. He decided to stay with his kayak rather than attempt to swim to shore, a decision he now regrets. "It was just real big swells, 10- to15-foot swells, wind just howling. I capsized the boat maybe 30 times the first two days," he said. _ _ _ O / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ O \ C U T E N D Could he'd been slightly tired after +32 hours on the sea, apparently in rough seas for a good part of the time..?? ;) Apart from that: Sure, if he'd ckecked out the weather forecast, he wouldn't have ended up in any jeopardy. -- steen --- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Aug 05 2002 - 03:22:11 PDT
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